Kuiti was a member of the Upper Hutt club in the Wellington Rugby League competition, making his senior début in 1980.
[7] Mike Kuiti played, and scored a try in Rochdale Hornets 14–24 defeat by St. Helens in the 1991 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1991–92 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, on Sunday 20 October 1991.
[11] Kuiti made his long-awaited New Zealand national rugby league team début on the 1989 tour of Great Britain and France.
He was dropped in 1990 for home tests against Great Britain before being reinstated for the 1990 tour of Papua New Guinea.
[12] In 2010 Kuiti was the coach of the Hutt International Boys' School side in the Wellington Rugby League's Stephen Kearney Cup.